{"product_id":"stained-glass-a-reflective-history-of-antisemitism-paperback-softback-9781487557898","title":"Stained Glass; A Reflective History of Antisemitism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487557898","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reflective History of Antisemitism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFlora Cassen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487557898\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages, 22 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a powerful and compelling book that speaks to our time but also offers a longer-term historical perspective that is often lacking in contemporary discussions of antisemitism in the present. Deeply moving, I look forward to seeing it in the world.\" \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e- Laura Levitt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Objects that Remain and American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/em\u003e is my favorite kind of book: one I have a really hard time describing. What do you call a memoir that is also art history, a book about antisemitism that is also about Jewish pride, a sc\u003ci\u003eholarly history as concise as a sonnet? I don’t know, but it’s worth reading, now.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Mark Oppenheimer, author of Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJudy Blume: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Moving between Europe and America, personal memory and historical scholarship, Flora Cassen probes antisemitism, Holocaust memory, Jewish belonging, and the renewed sense of isolation that followed October 7. Written with remarkable economy and intellectual honesty, \u003ci\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/i\u003e is a quiet masterpiece.\" \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e- Daniel B. Schwartz, author of \u003ci\u003eGhetto: The History of a Word\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, Flora Cassen traces a Jewish life shaped by family and history, moving between medieval Europe and the present to connect lived experience with the longer arc of Jewish history. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on her upbringing in Antwerp’s Jewish community and her grandparents’ escape from Nazi-occupied Europe to the Belgian Congo, Cassen writes from within a past in which powerlessness rubbed shoulders with power. From her later life in the United States, she considers Jewish life in Europe as a mirror that reflects enduring questions about vulnerability and belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/em\u003e asks what it means to leave Europe behind and to encounter in American Jewish life a vitality that is strikingly beautiful yet never fully settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Yossi Klein Halevi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: A Jew-Free Europe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathas’ Story\u003cbr\u003eWalking on History\u003cbr\u003eCulture Shocks\u003cbr\u003eHistory Doesn’t Change – Only Our Interpretation Does\u003cbr\u003eThe Dutch Synagogue in the Belgian Shtetl\u003cbr\u003eLearning from the Past\u003cbr\u003eIn the Shadow of the Shoah\u003cbr\u003eA History of Tears or Resilience?\u003cbr\u003eMedieval Anti-Judaism\u003cbr\u003eChrist-Killers Past and Present\u003cbr\u003eThe Story That Never Dies\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Badge in Renaissance Italy\u003cbr\u003eWake up, Flora!\u003cbr\u003eGetting Slapped by Both Wings\u003cbr\u003eTeaching about Hate\u003cbr\u003eMonuments in the Present\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Judaism in the West\u003cbr\u003eTwo Women in Antwerp\u003cbr\u003eWhen Spain and Portugal Expelled Beatrice (1492 and 1497)\u003cbr\u003eInquisition \u003cbr\u003eFrom Lisbon to Antwerp\u003cbr\u003eBeatrice’s Story\u003cbr\u003eHidden Identities, Double Selves\u003cbr\u003ePola’s Antwerp\u003cbr\u003eThe Belgian Exodus\u003cbr\u003eLife under Nazi Occupation\u003cbr\u003eA Wartime Marriage \u003cbr\u003eThe Lemon on My Seder Plate\u003cbr\u003eLooking Jewish\u003cbr\u003eCrossing the Pyrenees Mountains\u003cbr\u003eArrested\u003cbr\u003eIn the Congo\u003cbr\u003eA New Life\u003cbr\u003eBecoming Colonists\u003cbr\u003eExile, Not Home\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile Back Home\u003cbr\u003eFriendships\u003cbr\u003eThe Histories I Carry\u003cbr\u003eHolding the Contradictions\u003cbr\u003eTell Me about Mala\u003cbr\u003eNo One Saw Him Die\u003cbr\u003eMala’s Escape\u003cbr\u003eIn Mala’s Broken House\u003cbr\u003eA House Built on Shaky Foundations\u003cbr\u003eMarching to the Past\u003cbr\u003eMaybe It’s Better to Forget?\u003cbr\u003eI Was 20 in 1945\u003cbr\u003eEveryone Learned the Lessons of the Holocaust Except… \u003cbr\u003eAn Old Christian Reproach\u003cbr\u003eLike the Cross at Auschwitz\u003cbr\u003eThe Backlash Years\u003cbr\u003eThe Price and Politics of Memory\u003cbr\u003ePink, Fat, and Wealthy Jews\u003cbr\u003eJews and Money: An Old Myth\u003cbr\u003eDon’t Touch our Carnival\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Soccer Team\u003cbr\u003eWho?\u003cbr\u003eHannah and Irene\u003cbr\u003eTo Stay or Go?\u003cbr\u003eWhy Not There?\u003cbr\u003eJewish Women Protesting\u003cbr\u003eIn My Classroom\u003cbr\u003eDefinitions, Definitions…\u003cbr\u003eOctober Seven\u003cbr\u003eLoneliness\u003cbr\u003eA Verbal Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eGaza\u003cbr\u003eZionist and Anti-War\u003cbr\u003eCould I Come up with Better Words?\u003cbr\u003eReplacism and Eliminationism\u003cbr\u003eThe Myth of Elimination as Justice\u003cbr\u003eA Christian Transfer of Guilt\u003cbr\u003eA Replacist and an Eliminationist Meet in a Bar\u003cbr\u003eWhich Past in Our Future\u003cbr\u003eNot the Holocaust but the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003eCourt Jews\u003cbr\u003eProtection or Rights?\u003cbr\u003eThe Personal is Political\u003cbr\u003eWhat I Learned from a Disappeared Suitcase\u003cbr\u003eWho Stole the Carps?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"New Jewish Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653202637080,"sku":"9781487557898","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stained-glass-a-reflective-history-of-antisemitism-paperback-softback-9781487557898","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}